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Pectoral Exercises

June 30, 2008

Our chest is made of pectoral muscles. These are major or minor. One of its jobs is to turn your arm inward. Its other job is to help pull your arm forward and down. The chest is without a doubt one of the most popular body parts to train while following a weight training routine, as it is affected way to increase your strength. Some of the pectoral exercises are mentioned below:
Peck-deck flys

Sit straight to provide rest to your back as you rest while sitting on chair.
Place your feet on the floor and your forearms behind pads or grasp handles in that way that your forearms are in vertical position and your upper arms should be parallel to the floor.
Pull the grips together in front of the body and try to touch them.
Open the arms slowly and gradually.
Place the arms at the sides of the body.
Bring the grips smoothly and without stopping back to the starting position, where they should touch briefly exactly in the middle in front of your body.
Retry the exercise 7-8 times.

Pushups

Stand against a wall, on the floor with knees bent or straight-legged.
Put your hands few inches wider than your shoulder, it can either on the floor or the wall.
Level your hands with your chest.
Place your feet at a distance greater than your arms’ length when you are performing against the wall.
Stand in straight position as your head to toe all body parts would be in equal position.
Keep tension in your arms.
Breathe out when you pushup as it may provide additional power.
You can retry this pectoral exercise as much as you can but remember one thing doesn’t try more than 10 times as it may harm you.


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